According to the Malala Fund, there are over 130 million girls worldwide who are not in school. Without an education, these girls will often marry and have children at a young age, work in unpaid or low paying positions, and Read More
Category: Activism
Learn how to take action for women’s rights and gender equality with guides, resources, and success stories from activists worldwide.
The Equal Rights Amendment: How The US Constitution is Still Failing Women
It was in a women’s literature class my sophomore year of college that I first learned the shocking fact that the United States Constitution does not have an Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing equal legal rights for everyone regardless of their Read More
All the People Living with Invisible Illness
For all the people living with invisible illness: you’re not alone. As a sufferer of a progressive but invisible disease, I often pause at the standard box on forms saying: Are you disabled? Am I? If I look at my Read More
Girls Just Want to Have Funds: Equal Pay for Women
Queens! What if I told you that you were being robbed?! From the moment you start working, there is a strong chance that you’ve been underpaid for the work you’ve done. Not because you are underqualified. Not because you are Read More
Myths About Sexual Assault Need to be Debunked Now
We hear of sexual assault scandals and historic abuse cases so often that our society has almost become numb to them, especially after the ‘Me Too’ movement in 2017. While it is an issue that is talked of more openly Read More
World Day Against Trafficking
Many readers are now familiar with the name Jeffrey Epstein. Thanks in large part to the laser-focused investigative journalism of Julie K. Brown from the Miami Herald, Epstein, a wealthy former hedge fund manager, was recently arrested on sex trafficking Read More
The 5 Biggest Sex Trafficking Myths Debunked
We might have actor Liam Neeson to thank for getting us riled up about sex trafficking. After all, as the very angry father of a young woman kidnapped to be sold as a sex slave in the Taken (2008) film Read More
How Women Become Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
Human trafficking occurs all around the world, and in each and every one of the 50 United States. It is estimated that there are over 40 million global victims and hundreds of thousands in the United States. While the United Read More
How Foster Care Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims
There are over 400,000 kids in the United States child welfare system, more commonly known as foster care. These children and teens typically face myriad barriers, such as the lack of a permanent and stable family, and limited access to Read More
How Does Sex Trafficking Happen?
You may think that human trafficking happens somewhere far away and to people much different from yourself. But the truth is: human trafficking exists in every country in the world, and possibly even in your hometown. In the United States, Read More
